Canvas Information: Courses will be available beginning January 24th, 6 am PT unless you are taking an intensive or a one-unit or two-unit class that starts on a different day. In that case, the class will open on the first day that the class meets.

You will be enrolled in the Canvas site automatically.

Course Description

The course focuses on techniques of online searching, understanding database structures, hands-on search experience on commercial search services and user education and services. Commercial search services for review include resources from Proquest, EBSCO, LexisNexis, Factiva, Web of Science, eBooks, digital image collections and others. The course will also focus on open educational resources (OER). The skills and knowledge acquired in this course are transferrable to a wide range of databases and other online search tools, across all sectors of the library and information management profession.

The major topics of the course include search techniques and strategies, database structure, selecting search tools, review of subject databases, and general online searching for open educational resources.

Students are required to actively participate in weekly online discussions.

Readings include a required text, articles as assigned, and recorded vendor-run demos of commercial databases.